Now, the ECHO can reveal how a resident on the Walton estate where he lived with his mum and brother, inadvertently took receipt of an anonymous wad of cash, totalling £1,000 that he believes was posted to the wrong address.

The local said: “A few weeks ago, we received £1,000 through the front door.

“I showed the money to my son, and he said, by the way it was wrapped, that it was clearly drugs money.

Officers swooped on the Liverpudlian in the Plaza de Bellavista shopping centre.

A spokesman for Peru’s Ministerio Público said: “Caught red-handed, an English citizen was arrested carrying around 32 kilos of brick-type cocaine hydrochloride, which he intended to take out of the country.